MAY 16, 2020

Chapter 3:

Changes in the Society

and the Growing
Sociological Problems
Acuario, Karen D. MAED-GC
San Andres, Arianne
THEN AND
NOW
THEN NOW
THEN NOW
THEN NOW
THEN NOW
Essential
question:
- Is “change” a
good thing?
 What is Social Change?

• Social change refers to changes in the way society is organized, the

beliefs, and/or practices of the people who live in that society.

• Alterations in basic structures of a social group or society.

• Change in the social institutions, the rules of social behavior, value

systems or the social relations of a society or community.
 What is Social Change?
Sociocultural evolution: The idea that society moves forward by looking from
different perspectives and arguing a certain point of view.

Paradigmatic: When society shifts from one point of view or way of thinking to
another (eg. Feudalism to capitalism).

Social revolution: In order to change the foundation of a society, a large uprising mus
occur.

Social movement: When the “people” within a society begin to advocate change.
Social Change and the
Individual
Growing population has greatly influenced the
lives of the people and when social change
disrupts the social order, and the individual
finds difficulty in obtaining the essential
necessities of life, change can be terrifying.
 Levels of Human Action and Change

01 03 04
Individual 02 Group of social
Cultural System
systems It is a modification of a society
personality Interaction among The group is the unit of through innovation, invention,
It has historically been the individuals analysis, particularly the
emergent properties of the
discovery, or contact with other
societies
sphere of psychologists It consists of the “behaviorist
whether they pursue a group where the social level is
perspective,” including
sychoanalytic or a behaviorist felt to reside. 
personality, interaction and self
framework. theory.
 Culture change refers to all alterations affecting new
traits or trait completes in cultural context and structure.
It may involve such elements as
(Davis 1949:622-623)
1. 2.
The development of oral
3.
and written language and
Modification in Shifts in economic
other means of
technology principles; 
communications;

4. Historical evolution of 5.
religious ritual and
dogma, educational
philosophy, and political
ideology.
6.
Variations in musical Alterations in the forms
styles and other art and rules of social
forms; interaction
 Social Change in Philippine Society

Philippine society is in a flux change. A major consequence of change in the

Philippines which is also taking place in the other parts of the contemporary
world is modernization. This implies a change from the traditional way of life to
a more complex, technologically advanced, rapidly changing style of life. The
various elements of socio-cultural change are industrialization, urbanization,
technology, population, education, bureaucracy, medicine and public health, and
recreation.
 Growing
Sociological
Problems
Sociological
Thank you
and
Godbless
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